| Show 0 Forest Notes r I r Whore cro The Timber GoCs GoCA I The Thc of Pennsylvania anla require require re- re quire quiro f to j i I board feet of or lumber annually Thc They are the largest single wood consuming industry in the tho state eta an and l use more lumber r than thc to States State's entire lumber cut which w Is from to I board feet foot per year The railroads j I of the country are the direct purchasers purchasers pur- pur J ob chasers sers of at per cent of at tho the annual annual annual an- an I nual lumber cut of ot the country and i 1 directly cr or I Indirectly 1 consume 25 26 per cont cent of the total 1 Sixty seven per cent of the he croSstie crosstie cross- cross tie tio requirements of ot Pennsylvania's railroads are Imported but tho the growing and cutting of ties continues contin contin- ues to be one of or the most profitable profitable profit profit- able forest Industries for forest owners In the state today How Much uch Litter Utter On An Aero Acre In a pine oak stand on tho the Bent Dent Creek EX Experimental Forest near J Asheville N N. N C C. C the accumulated J litter on an acre amounts to about about pounds On a plot which bleh t l burned two years ago there is now i i approximately pounds and anti antion andon andon on a thoroughly raked plot the fall of a single year amounted to to pounds t k i Practicing Foresters Certificate 0 issued To Ranger Thursby Ranger Thursby is 15 the tho first of tho the ManU Mantl rangers to bo be awarded tho the practicing foresters certificate I This a award ar Is TIlde n ide to those rangers rang rang- I ors ers who all till the correspondence correspondence corres corres- courses outlined by the Regional Regi-onal Foresters Forester's office and put the improved methods into practice Jon Ion on their respective districts Tree Planting I One thousand Ponderosa pine pino trees from the Monument Nursery arrived in Ephraim on April where they were in heeled-in until the tho I snow molts melts off otC our nr areas The trees were grown In the tho forest forest forest for for- est nursery at Monument Colorado and reached Ephraim In very good shape Trees Look Bad The Ponderosa and pines growing in the vicinity of t Flat are showing what is s thought to be the effects of last summers summer's drouth Most of ot tha the noodles on nearly all the trees are brown like they are aro dying and It It Is not known at this time whether or not they will s survive |
